I spent quite a few hours on this today. I set up a PPA, did a backport of wxpython3 (which provides most of these packages), and uploaded it. The build on the Ubuntu servers
fails, due to the package not specifying mesa-common-dev as a build-depends. (This issue is fixed in Debian, for what it's worth.)
I pinged the folks on the #ubuntu-packaging IRC in order to figure out what my next step is, but I haven't gotten a reply yet.
Harrumph.
Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i did try this and it said it couldn't satisfy the dependancies..
Hi Jake, you can still install the package this way, inserting the dependencies that need to be ignored. I built recent KiCads this way.
sudo dpkg --install --ignore-depends=_______ python-wxgtk3.0.deb
> If I can find a few savvy volunteers here who use their 14.04 machines regularly and also want to test this for me, I can propose it be included in official backports.
Hi Adam,
My main machine is running Xubuntu 14.04. I can test this for you during a few weeks. After that, I plan tu update to 14.10 myself.
Do I have to compile with KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON, or only KICAD_SCRIPTING?
Let me know when the backports are ready.
Regards,
Carl
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Adam
I have an ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) available, but I don't use it daily
though. I can still test the packages for you.
Nick
2014-10-18 15:20 GMT+02:00 Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> *sigh*
>
> I have begun the backports process. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports
>
> What this means is that I am creating a PPA of packages that are needed for
> KiCad and are already in 14.10 (utopic), but rejiggering the packages so
> they're meant for 14.04 (trusty).
>
> If I can find a few savvy volunteers here who use their 14.04 machines
> regularly and also want to test this for me, I can propose it be included in
> official backports.
>
> Hopefully this goes as smoothly as getting wxWidgets 3.0 working on this
> week's OS X release. (Sometimes I feel we spend more time working on our
> dependencies than on KiCad!)
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> Wayne and Layne, LLC
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> i did try this and it said it couldn't satisfy the dependancies..
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>
>>> So did you ever try what Moses suggested?
>>>
>>> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg15067.html
>>>
>>> 2014-10-18 10:30 GMT+02:00 Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>> so i'm trying to install kicad on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04, which
>>>> is
>>>> this years' long-term support version of Ubuntu.
>>>>
>>>> it should be easy right?
>>>>
>>>> but immediately, the kicad-install.sh script says
>>>> E: Unable to locate package python-wxgtk3.0
>>>> E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'python-wxgtk3.0'
>>>>
>>>> i looked into it and i see that python-wxgtk3.0 is only available for
>>>> bleeding-edge installs of Ubuntu 14.10 which only just now came out.
>>>>
>>>> this is very frustrating and basically means that anyone not running
>>>> literally the latest system software can't install kicad. Is this
>>>> really
>>>> necessary? I have python-wxgtk2.8 available to me, is that not
>>>> sufficient?
>>>>
>>>> I am not an expert with aptitude and sources, and i have no idea how to
>>>> get
>>>> python-wxgtk3.0 onto my system, so i just installed python-wxgtk2.8
>>>> and i took out that line from kicad-install.sh and i'm trying again.
>>>>
>>>> but if possible, i think it would be ideal if this requirement were
>>>> taken
>>>> out. I can't in good conscience keep telling people that they should
>>>> switch
>>>> to kicad if i can't even figure out how to install it myself.
>>>>
>>>> apologies if i'm missing something basic, or if my tone is frustrated.
>>>>
>>>> thank you,
>>>> -jake
>>>>
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